Create 2020 Christmas Cards for FREE

Create 2020 Christmas Cards for FREE

A lot of families are preparing to forgo their regular holiday celebrations this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many that miss the celebrations may plan to have video meeting for their long-distance party as well as sharing for their pretty Christmas cards which will make everyone feel a bit more connected to their friends, relatives or loved ones.

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Six Thinking Hats Tutorial

Six Thinking Hats Tutorial

The six thinking hats technique, proposed Edward de Bono in 1999, encourages a group to approach the issue at hand from a number of different perspectives. This forces the team to move outside their habitual thinking style, and helps them to get a more rounded view of a situation. It is an important and powerful technique to debate an issue, solve a problem or to arrive at an important decision.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Lewin’s Change Model

A Comprehensive Guide to Lewin’s Change Model

Organizational Change is a common thread that runs through all businesses regardless of size, industry and age. It is about the process of changing an organization’s strategies, processes, procedures, technologies, and culture, as well as the effect of such changes on the organization. Kurt Lewin developed a change model involving three steps: unfreezing, changing and refreezing.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Kotter’s 8 Step Model of Change

A Comprehensive Guide to Kotter’s 8 Step Model of Change

Kotter suggests that for change to be successful, 75% of the practice team needs to “buy into” the change. In other words, you have to really work hard on Step One, and spend significant time and energy building urgency, before moving onto the next steps. Don’t panic and jump in too fast because you don’t want to risk further short-term losses — if you act without proper preparation, you could be in for a very bumpy ride.

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A Comprehensive Guide to 5 Why Analysis

A Comprehensive Guide to 5 Why Analysis

The 5 Whys is a simple tool used to help you understand what’s causing a problem by using an iterative interrogative technique to explore the root cause underlying a particular problem. As the name suggested, 5 Whys takes five iterations of asking “Why” to drill down from one symptom to another until you reached the root cause (Sometimes asking “Why?” five times is too many, and sometimes you need to ask it more than five times).

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Venn Diagram: A Comprehensive Tutorial

Venn Diagram: A Comprehensive Tutorial

Venn diagrams are graphical or pictorial representations of relationships between different groups of things. Venn Diagram was invented by John Venn around 1880. Venn diagrams are also called set diagrams. Venn diagrams give a logical representation of the groups or sets. Relationships between two or three sets can be easily understood with the help of Venn diagrams. In mathematics, Venn diagrams are used to analyze known information obtained from surveys, data reports, and tables.

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Strategic Planning to Actionable Items: From SWOT to TOWS Analysis

Strategic Planning to Actionable Items: From SWOT to TOWS Analysis

SWOT matrix is a planning tool, whereas TOWS matrix is an action tool. In SWOT analysis you identify all the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats in point form. After that you think of each point as a singular perspective. Whereas, TOWS matrix identifies the relationships between these factors and selecting strategies on their bases. Strengths and weaknesses are abstract concepts that can be hard to think about without any sort of context.

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